Jack, this week we learned from the January 6 committee hearings that everyone knew that the 2020 election was not stolen, including Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, Trump's campaign manager, even Trump himself and yes, even Trump's propaganda machine, Fox News.
However, you wouldn't know by the way Fox News paraded out Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro and other Trump acolytes to push unfounded lies and conspiracy theories about the election. Prime time talking heads like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity fueled Trump's deranged lies every single night, pandering to their audience.
Just as Trump saw a windfall of $250 million from fleecing his followers about the stolen election, Fox News realized that they too, could jump on the Big Lie bandwagon. Fox News chose profits over the democracy of our country.
The big problem is that right-wing news media dwarfs progressive news outlets, with a huge reach and influence over the American population. Fox News has been the highest rated cable news outlet for years, with Trump enabler Tucker Carlson having the top show. Daily Kos is one of the biggest progressive news outlets in the country, but we need to be much, much bigger in order to more effectively debunk right-wing lies that are threatening our democracy. That's why I'm asking you to donate $5 to Daily Kos.
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